Do the best work of your career, with adults.
A senior-only studio across Dubai, Sacramento, London, and New Delhi — where the person who scopes the work builds it, and nobody calls you a ninja.
What you get — and what you don’t.
Apptology is deliberately small and deliberately senior. There's no bench to disappear onto and no layer of account managers between you and the founder you're building for — you'll be in the client's Slack, owning decisions with your name on them.
What we offer that big firms don't: real product variety (a med-spa concierge one quarter, a freight-ops tool the next), AI work that ships to production rather than to decks, and a process that protects your evenings because estimates come from data, not bravado.
What we don't offer: a ladder of fancy titles, a foosball-table culture page, or the comfort of hiding in a large team. If you need those, better places exist — genuinely.
Day to day.
- Async-first across four time zones; meetings are the exception.
- Weekly demos — your work is seen by clients every Friday.
- Senior peers only; code review is a conversation, not a gate-keeping ritual.
- Written culture: decisions, estimates, and retros live in documents.
- AI tooling encouraged, with judgement — you own what ships.
Five traits.
- Taste — you can tell good from clever, and choose good.
- Refusal — you push back on scope that shouldn't ship.
- Communication — you write clearly enough to be quoted.
- Range — senior depth in one craft, working fluency across others.
- Curiosity — you've already played with the tools we'll use next year.
Four steps, no hazing.
Application
Send work you're proud of — a repo, a case study, a shipped thing. CVs are optional context, not the centerpiece.
Technical conversation
90 minutes with a senior engineer on real problems we've shipped. No whiteboard hazing, no trick puzzles.
Paid trial project
A scoped, paid piece of real work — you see how we operate, we see how you think.
Offer
Straight numbers, no exploding deadlines, and a real conversation about where you want to grow.
Salaries are benchmarked to senior market rates in each hub and shared as numbers, early — no 'competitive' hand-waving. Add private healthcare, hardware of your choice, a learning budget that doesn't need a form, and profit-share after year one. No equity theatre.
Open roles.
We hire when we find the right person, not to fill a headcount spreadsheet. If the paragraph above sounds like you, write to us.